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By finding places that are easy to get to for all the things I use most often, and places that are pretty easy to get to for the things I use less often, I spend less time dreading doing things and more time actually doing things.

A (good) place for everything, and everything in its place.

It is amazing how much more in control I feel just by ridding myself of now outdated articles I’d like to read “someday,” or countless meeting notes from which relevant action items have already been extracted. Organizing unnecessary items is wasted energy. It might not be the same device for every location (I have a moleskine for work, but use my mobile for inspiration on the fly) but just being able to write stuff down when you think about it is key for me. With all of these different ways of doing things, I end up spending much more time trying to organize my to do list, or consolidate it, that I don’t get much actually done. I might put a task in Remember the Milk, another task in my palm, one in my Gcal and send another text to my phone. I’m a lazy woman, with an even lazier attitude. While I love all of these handy web 2.0 apps, computer software, very neat gadgets like palms and really cool cell phones, they just don’t work for me.

An easy and workable task list, or to do list.

Everything else seems to fall into place if I do that. Writing down and making mental note of my top 3 tasks to get done for the day. Names have been removed to protect the innocent.

I must emphasize: these are not my tips, but yours, and when you see the word “I” it refers to the reader writing the tip, not me. What follows are some of the best of the tips (tools will be in another post), edited for brevity and consistency. And you responded in force, with some great stuff. I consider myself fairly organized, for example, but there are times when I get a little lax about my organizational rules, and there’s always room for improvement.Īnd if you’re already organized (read: you’re an organizational freak), chances are, you like to read about others’ organizational systems.Īs such, there should be something for everyone on this list.Ī couple of weeks ago, I asked all of you for your best organizational tips and tools. It’s a rare person among us who doesn’t feel the need to get more organized.